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IDEMIA Smart Identity has reaffirmed its partnership with Nigeria's National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to upgrade the country's national biometric identification infrastructure, aiming to support a database of 250 million records

Nigeria is on course to reach a target of issuing digital ID to 148 million citizens by June 30 this year, the World Bank has said in its 2023 annual report.

DPI will be one of the central priorities of the United Kingdom’s new digital development strategy for low and middle-income nations.

It is estimated that 1.1 billion people do not have a digital record of their identity, 1.25 billion do not have a digitally verifiable identity.

It is time for Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to make a substantial increase to the funds allocated to the National Identity Management Commission.

Over two dozen countries in Africa are planning different events to mark this year’s edition of ID Day, an initiative championed by identity movement ID4Africa.

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There is a vacuum where the governance framework for adoption of digital public infrastructure should be, and a legal framework is needed.

Ajay Banga, in his former senior executive roles at Mastercard, waged a decade-long "war on cash." Under his tenure, the company did more than just about any other to demonise the role of physical money around the world.

Ethiopia’s MOSIP-based digital ID scheme has been described as a lever for the country’s ambitious digital economy transformation plans.